DECATUR, Alabama - A man was charged with abusing a child younger than 18 after he was accused of beating his fiancé's 3-year-old boy with a hanger, Decatur police said in a news release.

Chris Hill, 34, turned himself in at the Decatur Police Department about 11 p.m. Sunday after learning that police were investigating, the release said. He was booked into city jail pending transfer to the Morgan County Jail. Bond has not been set.

Police were called to a Bluebird Lane residence about 7 p.m. Sunday on a child abuse call, police said. Hill was accused of striking his fiancé's child "multiple times" with a hanger, police said.

A police detective and an investigator from the Alabama Department of Human Resources were called to the scene. Authorities determined that the child had sustained injuries from being struck with a hanger, but he did not require medical attention. The boy remained in his mother's custody, but DHR enacted a safety plan to ensure that the child would be safe during the investigation.